Don McLean Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.”

“But I knew - in the old days, if a song was a good song, I don't care if it was 'Yellow Submarine' or, you know, or 'The Times They Are a-Changin' or 'Don't Be Cruel', you knew it, you know? You heard that song, and you were talking about it, and you knew it.”

“I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.”

“I am what I do, and that's partly why I don't want to give up singing. But when I can't sing well, I will.”

“I mean, I've been given a terrific life by the audiences who stuck with me all over the world.”

“The kids today all seem to think they should be stars, but I wasn't brought up that way.”

“Over the years I've had more and more of an association with Nashville.”

“I got my first guitar when I was 16. I'd play for my family and friends, but taking that guitar out there into the wide, wide world wasn't something I ever thought about.”

“When I go on the road now, which is less than before, but still more than I'd like to, I think of myself primarily as a singer. Not a songwriter, not a celebrity, just a man who likes to sing.”